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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 24
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Laws given concerning divorce, newly married persons, making merchandise of men, taking of pledges, leprosy, oppression of servants, and leaving gleanings of crops.
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When</span> a man hath taken a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Wives.">wife</a>, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE from unchastity, indecency.">uncleanness</a> in her: then let him write her a bill of <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/24/1c" mark="c" type="C" title="Matt. 1: 19; TG Divorce.">divorcement</a>, and give <i>it</i> in her hand, and send her out of his house.
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And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s <i>wife.</i>
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And <i>if</i> the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth <i>it</i> in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her <i>to be</i> his wife;
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Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that <i>is</i> abomination before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: and thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/4a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB bring guilt upon the land.">cause</a> the land to sin, which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee <i>for</i> an inheritance.
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&#182; When a man hath taken a new <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 20: 7.">wife</a>, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: <i>but</i> he shall be free at home one year, and shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/5b" mark="b" type="R" title="HEB be happy with; TG Family, Love within; TG Marriage, Husbands.">cheer</a> up his wife which he hath taken.
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&#182; No man shall take the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB lower.">nether</a> or the upper millstone to pledge: for <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR it is as if he took.">he</a> taketh <i>a man’s</i> life to pledge.
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&#182; If a man be found <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Stealing.">stealing</a> any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 21: 14.">merchandise</a> of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
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&#182; Take heed in the plague of <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Leprosy.">leprosy</a>, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/8b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Teachers.">teach</a> you: as I commanded them, <i>so</i> ye shall observe to do.
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Remember what the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
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&#182; When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
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Thou shalt stand <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/11a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR outside.">abroad</a>, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
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And if the man <i>be</i> poor, thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/12a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE keep it overnight.">sleep</a> with his pledge:
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In any case thou shalt deliver him the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 22: 26; Ezek. 18: 7.">pledge</a> again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/13b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR garment (also v. 17).">raiment</a>, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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&#182; Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 14: 31.">oppress</a> an hired servant <i>that is</i> poor and needy, <i>whether</i> <i>he be</i> of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that <i>are</i> in thy land within thy <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/14b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE of the cities, towns.">gates</a>:
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<sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/15a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB The same day.">At</a> his day thou shalt give <i>him</i> his <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Lev. 19: 13.">hire</a>, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he <i>is</i> poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/24/15c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 15: 9.">cry</a> against thee unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and it be sin unto thee.
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Marriage, Fatherhood.">fathers</a> shall not be put to <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Punishment.">death</a> for the children, neither shall the <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/24/16c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Sam. 21: 6 (1-14); Isa. 14: 21.">children</a> be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/24/16d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Accountability; TG Justice.">own</a> <sup>e</sup><a href="deut/24/16e" mark="e" type="B" title="TG Sin.">sin</a>.
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&#182; Thou shalt not <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/17a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 27: 19.">pervert</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/24/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Judgment.">judgment</a> of the stranger, <i>nor</i> of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:
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But thou shalt remember that thou wast a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/18a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB slave.">bondman</a> in Egypt, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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&#182; When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/24/19a" mark="a" type="C" title="Ruth 2: 2; TG Poor; TG Welfare.">widow</a>: that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
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When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean <i>it</i> afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
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And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
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